ILOILO CITY—The biggest festival on Panay Island goes back to its roots after 52 years, with contingents competing in Sunday’s Dinagyang Festival focusing more on the traditional dance steps and ...

Hala bira, festival goers! For Filipinos, January is more than just a celebration of the new year: It’s also a month of much-awaited festivals, one of which is the three-time winner of the Best ...

More than the usual vibrant colors of props and costumes, lively performances of tribe warriors, and rhythmic beat and sounds of drums and other musical instruments, Dinagyang Festival, being ...

CEBU, Philippines - Iloilo City’s premier celebration, the Dinagyang Festival, defended its championship title yet again in the Aliwan Festival. The Dinagyang was also named grandslam champion for ...

ILOILO CITY: The Dinagyang Festival, renowned globally for the spectacular performances of Ati-Atihan tribes, gets "better and better" every year, Mayor Jerry Treñas said. "Dinagyang has indeed come a ...

This year's Dinagyang Festival spices things up by giving the audience a 360-degree view of the performances during the Ati Tribe dance competition ILOILO CITY, Philippines – This year’s Dinagyang ...

ILOILO CITY (PIA) — Apart from tribes’ competitions and religious activities in honor of Señor Sto. Niño, windows of extra income opportunities also opened for small business owners, including ...

Manila, Philippines — If there is one event the Ilonggos of Iloilo City take great pride in, it’s the annual Dinagyang Festival. During the last week of January, the city comes alive with the ...

“The owners of our ancestral homes are heroic, because they’ve taken it upon themselves to preserve, often against all the odds, a key aspect of our collective Filipino heritage for our future ...

ILOILO CITY — The local government declared an “open season” for candidates to strut their stuff in Iloilo’s famous Dinagyang Festival, one of several annual feasts being held in honor of the Child ...

I BARELY got any sleep when I arrived at the Port of Iloilo on a Saturday morning after a 24-hour ferry ride from Manila. It was Dinagyang weekend, and the ferry was packed with people coming home to ...

Even if I’m a Manila Girl by birth, I am an Ilongga at heart. That’s why I was ecstatic when GMA 7 invited me to cover its Dinagyang Festival activities in my second home, Iloilo, last weekend. It ...